Facilitating return to work can be challenging due to the complexity of work disability. Few studies have examined rehabilitation programs based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that intend to support return to work, and none have investigated therapists’ experience with providing such programs. The aim of this study was therefore to explore therapists’ experience of addressing the return to work process in an inpatient occupational rehabilitation program based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
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Objective: The Recovery Self-Assessment (RSA) is a reliable and valid tool used to measure recovery-oriented services. Recent studies, however, suggest that the length and reading level of the RSA makes its routine use in service settings difficult. Recognizing the importance of including people with lived experience of a mental health challenge in research processes and the need to enhance the utility of tools that measure recovery-oriented services, this paper describes an innovative researcher-peer provider consultant multistep process used to revise the provider version of the RSA to create a new instrument—the Recovery-Oriented Services Assessment (ROSA).. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Rehabilitation in people with severe and enduring mental illness: Draft scope consultation
You can now comment on this draft scope. The scope defines what the guideline will (and will not) cover.
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This article presents findings from a randomized controlled trial of a peer support mentorship intervention designed for individuals with serious mental illness and frequent, recurrent psychiatric hospitalizations.. Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP- Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Schizophrenia has a heterogeneous range of end states, from severe cases requiring repeated hospitalization to cases in which a single illness episode is followed by complete remission. The purpose of the present review is to examine recent literature on recovery in schizophrenia, focusing on the predictive factors and on the possibility to achieve it.VCathens18
CPFT specialist clinical psychologist Dr Kate Nurser has conducted the first UK research on how storytelling can help the recovery of people who have experienced mental health challenges.
Forward Thinking provides an overview of recent published research, funded by the NIHR, on support for people living with SMI. These studies address particular uncertainties and evidence gaps identified by those working in and using these services. It also highlights research currently taking place to inform the support and care of people with severe mental illness.
Befriending has become a widely used method for tackling social isolation in individuals with severe mental illness (SMI), and evidence exists to support its effectiveness. However, patient preferences for befriending remain unclear. We aimed to determine whether patients with SMI want a volunteer befriender and, if so, the volunteer characteristics and character of the relationship they would prefer.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Vol. 41, Iss. 1, (Mar 2018): 1-7.
Objective: Antistigma programs may be guided by 3 differing agendas: services (promote treatment engagement), rights (help people achieve rightful goals), and self-worth (facilitate self-worth and efficacy). This study examined the construct validity of this perspective by examining the factor structure of importance ratings of the 3 agendas. The study examined how importance might be viewed differently by the population as a whole versus a subsample of people who reported previous experience with mental health services and hence could be directly harmed by stigma.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Vol. 41, Iss. 1, (Mar 2018): 29-38.
Objective: The study examined factors associated with community integration experiences of adults with serious mental illness who were members of psychosocial rehabilitation clubhouses in New York City.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Vol. 41, Iss. 1, (Mar 2018): 46-54.
Objective: This article describes a measure developed to assess fidelity of working with the Boston University approach to Psychiatric Rehabilitation (BPR) in Dutch mental health care. The instrument is intended to measure and improve BPR adherence and clinician competence on an individual level and within individual rehabilitation processes.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Social recovery therapy not only increases structured activity levels but also appears to keep people in contact with services in the critical first nine months. It could be incorporated into early intervention services for people with persistent social withdrawal.
In a report published today (Thursday 1 March), the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found through an information request to providers that nearly two thirds (63%) of placements in residential-based mental health rehabilitation services are ‘out of area’, which means they are in different areas to the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that arranged them.
Multidisciplinary rehabilitation is increasingly accepted as valuable in the management of chronic disease. Whereas traditional rehabilitation models focussed on recovery, maintaining independence and delaying functional decline are now considered worthwhile aims even where full recovery is not feasible. Despite this, rehabilitation is notably absent from dementia care literature and practice. People with dementia report frustration with the lack of availability of structured post-diagnosis pathways like those offered for other conditions. Alternative terms such as ‘re-ablement’ are used to refer to rehabilitation-like services, but lack an evidence-base to guide care. This commentary will discuss possible reasons for the resistance to accept multidisciplinary rehabilitation as part of dementia care, and identifies the value of doing so for people with dementia, their families, and for health professionals.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
In a pilot feasibility and effectiveness study, illness management and recovery (IMR), a curriculum-based program to help people with serious mental illness pursue personal recovery goals, was integrated into assertive community treatment (ACT) to improve participants’ recovery and functioning.. Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP- Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
It is important to investigate receipt of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services, service patterns and outcomes for youth with autism, so that limited public resources can be used more efficiently.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The new Recovery Library in Tiverton in partnership with Flourish Cafe is a place to find a broad range of mental health and recovery resources, self-help books, mental health reference, recovery stories, and more.
Liesbeth Tip on a qualitative study of Norfolk-based community singing project Sing Your Heart Out, aimed at people with mental illness & the general public
Although it is recognized that suffering a mental illness is a traumatic experience, the fact that this can lead to posttraumatic growth and the variables that may affect the situation are rarely discussed in the literature.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
I have endured auditory and visual hallucinations, paranoid thoughts, and depressive symptoms since the age of 6 (some 40 years ago), and was formally diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, depressive type in young adulthood. I chose not to surrender to my illness, but instead to wage a war against my symptoms. And I felt that I was winning that war until I chose to leave a successful but stressful career (built over a period of 25 years) to restore my health and my quality of life. . Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
As Individual Placement and Support (IPS) has become the international standard for vocational rehabilitation of adults with serious mental illness, researchers must consider the relationship between IPS and local environments. This meta-analysis used mixed-effects meta-regressions to assess the impact of site-level moderators on the likelihood that IPS recipients, compared with recipients of alternative vocational services, achieved competitive employment.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
In the era of deinstitutionalization, employment was an uncommon outcome for people with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses living in the community.1 Mental health and vocational rehabilitation professionals initially offered little help, perhaps because they believed that people with severe mental illnesses were unable or unlikely to work competitively. Instead, professionals referred people coming out of hospitals to sheltered settings, such as day programs and sheltered workshops, where they could be monitored closely and trained to work in a slow, step-wise fashion. Even the Program for Assertive Community Treatment2—a pioneer in community integration in the 1970s and 1980s—initially endorsed sheltered work...... Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Dissemination of early intervention facilities in many developed countries has led to an improved outcome for patients with first-episode psychosis.1, 2, 3 However, this improvement does not necessarily mean that the illness trajectory is radically shifted or that the overall outcome of the illness can be described as positive....... Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Provision of early intervention services has increased the rate of social recovery in patients with first-episode psychosis; however, many individuals have continuing severe and persistent problems with social functioning. We aimed to assess the efficacy of early intervention services augmented with social recovery therapy in patients with first-episode psychosis. The primary hypothesis was that social recovery therapy plus early intervention services would lead to improvements in social recovery. . Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Book review. SSSFT staff - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting. To read a copy of the book in this review, please contact the library
Each The Human Library™ event is designed to enable interactions that challenge stereotypes and prejudices through conversation. It is a library of individual human beings, drawn from different minority or marginalised groups in the community, that are somehow exposed to stigma, misunderstanding and / or discrimination.
To assess pooled prevalence rates of remission and recovery in FEP and to investigate potential moderators. SSSFT staff - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Although there is significant literature examining changes over time in the functional recovery of people with serious mental illnesses, relatively little is known about the longitudinal nature of person-oriented recovery. The purpose of this review and meta-analysis is to synthesize findings pertaining to the study of person-oriented recovery constructs over time and concomitants of change. Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP- Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The team’s ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’ programme aims to aid those who come in to contact with the criminal justice system and support people through the first six weeks following leaving custody.
The CARe methodology aims to improve the quality of life of people with severe mental illness by supporting them in realizing their goals, handling their vulnerability and improving the quality of their social environment. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the CARe methodology for people with severe mental illness on their quality of life, personal recovery, participation, hope, empowerment, self-efficacy beliefs and unmet needs.
Open access. To evaluate outcomes for patients during their admission or in the first year of treatment in two in-patient recovery units. Changes in health and social functioning, service use and need (rated by patients and staff) were evaluated.
After receiving tonnes of referrals for patients to play football as a means of recovery and finding no suitable team in Brent, Richard decided to create one. People being referred came from areas of very low income where there are high numbers of gangs
Delivered by a specialist team from Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) the trial is testing whether providing employment specialists based in GP practices and other community settings is an effective way of helping people into work.
Objective: The aim of this study was to gain insights into how service users and health providers experience their working relationships when they are offered the option of supplementing ongoing collaboration with an e-recovery portal.
Visiting the Life Rooms or joining our Recovery College can be the first step for people to look at their needs, hopes and strengths and what they want to happen in the future. Mersey Care’s centres for learning, recovery, health and wellbeing that can help. One at the former Carnegie library in Liverpool and a new Life Rooms in Southport.
The buildings are a base for a range of life opportunities for service users, carers and the wider community.
New research has revealed that recovery colleges can reduce pressure on local mental health services, lower the number of readmission's to hospital and improve students’ quality of life with reduced hospital admissions and improvements to quality of life for students.
This article will describe how the incorporation of protective factors into the assessment of risk can bridge the gap between recovery and risk of violence assessment. Attending to protective factors can encourage a therapeutic rapport between the patient and practitioner. By instilling a sense of hope into collaborative working, areas of potential growth can be developed without constantly revisiting weaknesses and historic behaviours.
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Mental health services seek opportunities to sustain recovery outcomes beyond service involvement. This study aimed to examine social workers’ (also called mental health clinicians) attitudes towards, expectations of, assumptions about, and insights into, initiating and sustaining recovery.
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The People Enjoying Nature (PEN) project is an outreach project at Pendle Hill LP which offers individuals who are dealing with mental health issues and social isolation to take part in a number of supported activities and learn new skills. The project was delivered in partnership by Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Community Restart Team and the Forest of Bowland and included a programme of activities taking place between March and October 2017.
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine whether Web-based Cognitive Remediation Therapy combined with a SE program can improve the rate return to work of people with severe mental illness.
Setting up an Individual Placement and Support (IPS) employment service can change people’s lives and revolutionise mental health care in a local area, says a report published today by Centre for Mental Health.
Recovery oriented service provisions means focusing on outcomes that are important to consumers themselves rather than to clinicians or services. Partners in Recovery (PIR) is an Australia-wide initiative designed to provide service coordination and brokerage for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. One PIR service engaged a consumer-led research team to evaluate the service from the perspective of consumers. This consumer-led study was established to explore PIR consumers’ perceptions of outcomes they achieved through their involvement with PIR.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry87.5 (2017): 567-574.
The role that people with serious mental illness (SMI) play in making decisions about their own treatment and rehabilitation is attracting increasing attention and scrutiny. This attention is embedded in a broader social/consumer movement, the recovery movement, whose agenda includes extensive reform of the mental health system and advancing respect for the dignity and autonomy of people with SMI. Shared decision-making (SDM) is an approach for enhancing consumer participation in health-care decision-making. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Social prescribing, which is sometimes known as community referral, is, according to the King’s Fund, a means of enabling GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services.
It’s aim is to support individuals to take greater control of their own health and seeks to address people’s needs in a holistic way.
Patients at Penn Hospital are set to benefit from a collaborative working arrangement with health and wellbeing charity, Kaleidoscope plus group to aid continued recovery in the community. The drop-in sessions will provide a visual link with a facilitator from Kaleidoscope plus group and a friendly face from the occupational therapy team at Penn hospital which aims to help soften the anxieties of attending new groups in the community.
The service, commissioned by Warrington Borough Council, gives service users the opportunity to take part in the Creative Remedies programme, an art for health scheme, which runs various community groups aiming to improve people’s health and wellbeing.
Activities in the programme include performing arts, music, digital photography and film production. Community engagement officer, Pete Regan, supported members to form the band while working with them in the Creative Remedies sessions and now plays bass as part of the group.
Editorial. The discourse of recovery has been co-opted by and pervades many standards of mental health service delivery. I want to consider what this means for mood disorders in a clinical context in which the medical model is the primary approach to treatment. The core concept in recovery discourse is concerned with living well in the presence or absence of mental illness and the many losses that may come in its wake, such as isolation, poverty, unemployment, and discrimination (Mental Health Commission 2012). To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Patient and physician perspectives about mental health, illness, and recovery, which affect different aspects of help seeking and healthcare, needs to be understood and theorized. SSSFT staff can use the OVID link, or you can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Understandings of personal recovery have emerged as an alternative framework to traditional ideas of clinical progression, or symptom remission, in clinical practice. Most research in this field has focussed on the experience of individuals suffering with psychotic disorders and little research has been conducted to explore the experience of individuals with a personality disorder diagnosis, despite the high prevalence of such difficulties. The nature of the personality disorder diagnosis, together with high prevalence rates in forensic settings, renders the understanding of recovery in these contexts particularly problematic. The current study seeks to map out pertinent themes relating to the recovery process in personality disorder as described by individuals accessing care in either community or forensic settings.
Considerable variation of outcome variables used to measure recovery in the gambling treatment literature has precluded effective cross-study evaluations and hindered the development of best-practice treatment methodologies. The aim of this systematic review was to describe current diffuse concepts of recovery in the gambling field by mapping the range of outcomes and measurement strategies used to evaluate treatments, and to identify more commonly accepted indices of recovery. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Langley Green Hospital has installed raised beds in each of the ward gardens to create allotments to help patients with their recovery, following a donation from Crawley Rotary Club.
Langley Green Hospital supports people with mental health issues such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression and severe anxiety.
This innovative new service - commissioned by South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust - complements the diverse portfolio of mental health services provided, supporting individuals in mental health crisis to reduce their immediate anxiety, formulating individual plans to support their mental health and thereby reducing the likelihood of requiring assistance from local accident and emergency services.
Based at their venue in Garratt Lane (3mins from Tooting Broadway tube station) the service opened its doors on Friday 7th April 2017.
The Café provides a safe space for people to gain assistance if they feel they may be moving towards, or are currently experiencing a mental health crisis.
People aged 18 and over from South West London (Kingston, Merton, Sutton, Richmond and Wandsworth) can self-present to the Café. The service is free and there is no requirement to pre-book an appointment.
This Reablement Unit is for patients who are not yet safe to return to their home environment, but who could be discharged from hospital if sufficient care and therapy provision is available in a residential setting to meet their rehabilitation needs.
People in south Essex are benefitting from Open Arts classes up to six months after attending courses according to a recent research by Anglia Ruskin University.
The research published in the International Journal of Mental Health Promotion found positive benefits to health and wellbeing of those who attended the art classes up to three and six months later.
Open Arts is a community arts project run by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) for people who have had experience of mental illness or their carers. It offers a 12 week course on various creative arts ranging from drawing, painting, print-making, 3D art and much more.
Our Community Mental Health IPU (Integrated Practice Unit) 11-17 team and their service users have been busy nurturing their allotment plot in Stratford recently.
The project, which is coordinated by Support Workers Tracey Pitcher, Julie McGhee and Richard Cantrill, is funded by Coffee and Chatz, a coffee shop run by volunteers within St Michael’s Hospital in Warwick.
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new training programme to support people in low secure mental health services on their journey towards recovery.
Included in the programme is a training filmed called ‘I’m a service user get me out of here’ which plays on the popular reality TV programme and features ex-service users who have lived experiences of mental illness requiring care and treatment in secure services.
Open access. Cannabis use following the onset of first-episode psychosis has been linked to both increased risk of relapse and non-adherence with antipsychotic medication. Whether poor outcome associated with cannabis use is mediated through an adverse effect of cannabis on medication adherence is unclear.
Comment. In The Lancet Psychiatry, Schoeler and colleagues present a study1 describing the mediating effect of medication adherence on the association between continued cannabis use and relapse risk in patients with first-episode psychosis. They have previously reported a relapse rate of 36% in this patient group over a 2-year period.2 Acknowledging the potential risk of psychosis relapse related to the high proportion of patients continuing cannabis use after the onset of psychosis, the current study1 investigates the same patient group consisting of 245 patients, obtaining retrospective data on active cannabis use and medication adherence shortly after illness onset, as well as risk of relapse at 2-year follow-up. The authors find that relapse of psychosis associated with continued cannabis use is partly mediated through non-adherence to prescribed antipsychotic medication. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Conclusions: Diagnosis appears to differentially impact on reconviction, readmission and mortality rates. Services could tailor pathways to prioritise symptom management and promoting healthy lifestyles for patients with MI, and reducing reoffending for patients with PD. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text.
Myplace is an exciting and innovative collaboration between Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and The Lancashire Wildlife Trust and is funded by close to £1m in Big Lottery Funding that is administered by the national ‘Our Bright Future’ campaign for young people.
The Myplace project encourages young people aged 13 – 24 years old to explore the environment by offering opportunities to participate in eco-therapy based activities where they can develop new skills, increase their self-esteem, build resilience and improve their own self-confidence. By getting involved in activities outdoors young people can reduce their stress levels, prevent mental health problems and improve their concentration and mood.
Recovery is a contested concept and definitions of it are scattered across various contexts and disciplines, contributing to the confusion that surrounds it. This article explores various conceptualisations of recovery and proposes a pragmatic way of viewing it as distributed across a continuum of clinical, social and personal domains. It also suggests the need to conceptualise recovery from the perspectives of different cultures.
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People with long-term mental health needs are facing stays of many years in inpatient services because of a lack of community services to help them to recover, according to a briefing paper published today by Centre for Mental Health.
We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
Stigma and Health (May 11, 2017).
Positive ingroup perceptions have been recognized as a protective factor that enhances stigma resistance and improves the well-being of people from minority communities. However, the impact of positive ingroup perceptions on mental health recovery has rarely been explored. The present study proposed an ingroup perceptions model of recovery and examined how group value, group identification, and sense of community contribute to better clinical and personal recovery for people with mental illness through the mediation of self-stigma and empowerment. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Despite advances in recovery focused mental health care, people with severe mental illness (SMI) experience multiple physical comorbidity compounded by unhealthy lifestyle behaviours including low levels of physical activity (Vancampfort et al. 2017; Walker et al. 2015). Responding to this, international policy is moving to include physical activity as part of fundamental care for people with severe mental illness (Pratt et al. 2016; Richardson et al. 2005). Incorporation of physical activity into mental health service provision should adopt an approach that is in keeping with best practice, recovery orientated guidelines of mental health service provision, with particular consideration shown to incorporating service users as partners in care plan development and delivery (Department of Health, 2001; Department of Health and Children, 2006). Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Objective: The aim was to illustrate uses and experiences with the secure e-recovery portal “ReConnect” as an adjunct to ongoing community mental health care and explore its potential role in shifting practices toward recovery.
The forensic service and forensic recovery college are provided by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Within low secure services Activity Coordinator Leah Brown has been successfully delivering mosaic sessions for a group of service users.
Changing Our Lives, a rights-based organisation that work in partnership with people with disabilities and mental health needs, recently issued a Quality of Life Review detailing the work achieved by Shropshire Council’s employment service, Enable.
The Recovery Cafés – which are being launched by London based charities Hestia and CDARS open their doors on Friday, 7 April.
This innovative new service will complement the diverse portfolio of mental health services provided, supporting individuals in mental health crisis to reduce their immediate anxiety, formulating individual plans to support their mental health and thereby reducing the likelihood of requiring assistance from local accident and emergency services.
REC-CONNECT is a city-wide collaboration developed to help those in recovery from alcohol and drug problems access activities and services in their local areas by forging relationships with the people at the very heart of those communities, who will be known as "community connectors".
The community connectors will help the service users access activities or groups that they might previously have dismissed - despite their interest - due to lack of confidence, concern about stigma or knowledge of how to get involved. These could include anything from fishing clubs to local libraries and knitting groups to cafes.
The opportunity to swim and use gyms to improve their health can play a key role in someone’s recovery, so over 60 service users a month from Aspire Drug and Alcohol Service are accessing fitness facilities at over 10 locations across the borough, thanks to a reduced rate corporate membership with DCLT.
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Community Restart Team provides help and support to people living with mental health problems enabling them to improve their quality of life and experience positive new challenges. The team works with individual service users to provide tailored support for things such as employment, finances, housing and social inclusion.
The service had previously worked with service users and the community to develop community football groups to tackle social isolation and increase overall health and wellbeing. They have since worked with the Lancashire Football Association to develop a community league which teams from across Lancashire take part in every month. As part of the Trust’s week long programme of events the Community Restart Team are holding a football tournament at the Play Football in Preston between 12-4pm.
The Christchurch and Southbourne Community Mental Health Team has teamed up with
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Health and wellbeing at work is a top priority for CNWL staff – including when people have serious but treatable illnesses.
This latest initiative means that staff with a serious and enduring mental illness can be supported when problems or issues arise, to keep their skills at CNWL and to help resolve - and dissolve - issues.
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is hosting a dedicated course for carers focused on supporting low mood.
The course is free and will provide support for people caring for loved ones who use the Trust’s services to better manage their mood. It will offer carers the opportunity to learn more about low mood and different ways to cope in situations that often arise in a caring role.
The health and work champions pilot programme, which has been developed by the College of Occupational Therapists and Public Health England, will use peer-to-peer staff training sessions delivered through health and work champions to encourage NHS staff to routinely discuss employment with their patients as part of their care plan.
The Islington IAPT Service, named ‘iCope’ by service users, is dedicated to the provision of high quality Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other NICE guideline adherent psychological approaches to the treatment of anxiety and depression for adults living in or with a GP in the London Borough of Islington.
To co-create of an interview schedule exploring mental health recovery in collaboration with young adult service users. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
At South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we have 4 established recovery colleges plus a developing recovery college model within our forensic mental health services.
It is important that we demonstrate some of the outcomes and wider impact of the recovery college model – including the significant financial ones we have found.
Service users, carers and staff told us that the impact was in 3 different places –for the individual, for the organisation and for the wider community.
LYPFT South CMHT has been progressive and innovative in their thinking. This is in terms of developing links with their third sector agencies in delivering Mental Health support in the community, through the evolving role of the Creative Practitioner.
The role of the Creative Practitioner is to work in a collaborative manner with users of services and community organisations, in taking a holistic approach to someone’s mental health needs.
The Internet is transforming mental health care services by increasing access to, and potentially improving the quality of, care. Internet-based interventions in mental health can potentially play a role in transitions from biomedical to recovery-oriented research and practices, but an overview of what this may entail, current work, and issues that need addressing, is lacking. The objective of this study is to describe Internet-based recovery-oriented interventions (referred to as e-recovery) and current research, and to identify gaps and issues relevant to advancing recovery research and practices through opportunities provided by the Internet.
Enable, Shropshire Council’s supported employment service, is very proud that it is achieving outstanding job results for people with disabilities through its Work Choice programme.
Research into patients’ experience in mental health hospitals has focused on acute settings. The authors of this study have explored the experience of patients on rehabilitation wards. Data were collected through focus groups led by service users acting as experts by experience. This helped to encourage participation by this group, which can be difficult to engage. Themes from the data were identified from the perspectives of staff, carers and service users. Two primary themes were identified by all reviewers – inflexible, authoritarian regimes on the wards and patients’ fears about being unable to cope in the future after leaving the rehabilitation ward. The implications of the findings and suggestions for improving care in rehabilitation wards are discussed. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you requesting.
REC-CONNECT is a city-wide collaboration developed to help those in recovery from alcohol and drug problems access activities and services in their local areas by forging relationships with the people at the very heart of those communities, who will be known as "community connectors".
The community connectors will help the service users access activities or groups that they might previously have dismissed - despite their interest - due to lack of confidence, concern about stigma or knowledge of how to get involved. These could include anything from fishing clubs to local libraries and knitting groups to cafes.
The proposals include creating ‘recovery centres’ for people with serious mental illnesses, offering individuals support with their employment, education and training options, and accessing personal health budgets.
A single provider of services is also being proposed, which could be one organisation or a number of organisations working as a partnership. The aim of which is to ensure that individuals from across Birmingham receive the same high-quality mental health day services, regardless of where they live in the city.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors31.1 (Feb 2017): 1-20.
Clinical guidelines recommend Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART Recovery) and 12-step models of mutual aid as important sources of long-term support for addiction recovery. Methodologically rigorous reviews of the efficacy and potential mechanisms of change are available for the predominant 12-step approach. A similarly rigorous exploration of SMART Recovery has yet to be undertaken. We aim to address this gap by providing a systematic overview of the evidence for SMART Recovery in adults with problematic alcohol, substance, and/or behavioral addiction, including (i) a commentary on outcomes assessed, process variables, feasibility, current understanding of mental health outcomes, and (ii) a critical evaluation of the methodology. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The team vastly improved the way care is delivered for women in the Trust’s medium secure unit, Newton Lodge. Their work has seen a typical stay drop by 3.4 years since 2015, meaning women are recovering quicker and are able to return to their communities and families sooner.
This included developing a separate rehabilitation ward area specifically for women who are ready to start developing the practical and social skills needed for more independent daily living.
A key role of a peer support worker in an inpatient setting is to support individuals with re-engaging and connecting up with their local communities and accessing employment and leisure opportunities after a hospital admission.
Among their duties, Mark and Lorna help train staff on peer-centred ways to liaise with patients; advocate on behalf of patients; take part in group meetings and one-to-one sessions with patients; and help prepare patients for discharge back into the community.